A compleat system of opticks in four books, viz. A popular, a mathematical, a mechanical, and a philosophical treatise. To which are added remarks upon the whole. By Robert Smith LL. D. Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge, and Master of Mechanicks to his Majesty.
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Cambridge: printed for the author, and sold there by Cornelius Crownfield, and at London by Stephen Austen at the Angel and Bible in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and Robert Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-Mall, MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]
- Publication year
- 1738-1738
- ESTC No.
- T100004
- Grub Street ID
- 153984
- Description
- 2v.([6],vi,[8],455;[1],171,[13]p.),plates ; 4⁰
- Note
- Pp.[1]-113 of the second register consist of the author's remarks upon the whole work; and pp.[115]-171 comprise An essay upon distinct and indistinct vision, signed: James Jurin.
With an index, errata leaf and leaf of advertisements at the rear of vol.II.